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the first piece of the new large equipment and for the renewed
interest which is expressed for the firm of Krupp once more.
In
enclosure 1 you will find the basic ideas for the social foundation of the firm
of Krupp into which the amounts realized from the sale of this equipment are to
be transmitted. In this connection I started from the idea that the firm of
Krupp should create something which exceeds the compass of the normal care for
the social welfare of the working staff. As you are aware, the normal care for
the social welfare has already been developed to a great extent in our firm,
and will be taken care of by the Party and the State more and more in the
future. But, with respect to the engineering problems which the firm of Krupp
had to solve so far, and which, I hope, will be entrusted to this firm also in
the future, I believe that the promotion of the intellectual and technical
talents of the workers and of their craftsmanship will remain a further social
claim to which especially the staff of Krupp is entitled.
The more the
knowledge of the individual member of the staff is developed, the more he will
be conscious of his value to the community of the people. But the furtherance
of his craftsmanship is only possible if he remains in the closest touch with
the manufacturing enterprise. The higher the knowledge of the workers is
developed, the better the quality of the products of the plant will be. The
planned foundation of a kind of company owned training place for the workers,
for which my collaborators suggested the name of “Gustav-Haus,” shall
serve this idea in the widest sense of the word.
Furthermore —
with special reference to my personal letter attached hereto — I should
like to refer once more to the further contents of your conversation with my
son at the Fuehrer Headquarters on which he has reported to me. You have asked
me to make proposals to you which would secure the future of the unified
existence of the Krupp works more than this is feasible today. In the enclosure
2 you will find a few thoughts which, to make them more easily understandable
and under the assumption that the firm of Krupp is not the only one which has
similar wishes for future safeguarding, I have shaped in the form of a draft
law. The basic thoughts behind the law are easily discernible from the
introduction. On considering this question we have ascertained that under the
present laws the principal solution of the question cannot be carried out. We
had to find an entirely new way, therefore, which, just as the law regarding
heritage of agricultural property, creates entirely new legislation.
Should there still be any questions concerning the fundamental ideas of
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